Raul Julia

He was born Raul Rafael Julia y Arcelay in the Floral Park section of San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 9, 1940. The eldest of four children by Raul Julia, an electrical engineer and restaurant owner, and his wife, Olga Arcelay, a mezzo-soprano from a long line of musicians whom Julia credited as the inspiration behind his career in the arts. He fell in love with performing after portraying the devil in a first grade play, and committed himself to becoming an actor after seeing Errol Flynn in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938). Bilingual from an early age, Julia studied the works of Shakespeare while still in grade school and organized productions of his plays while in secondary school. To p... Continue Bio >>